Every man who can be a first-rate something — as every man can be who is a man at all — has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins–particularly fashionable sins.
A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.
