Full oft a single word has been like a switch that turns a train from the route running toward the frozen North, to a track leading into the tropic South.
Not seldom has a youth been turned from the way of integrity by the influence of a single friend.

Endowed as man is, the weight of his being effects the most astonishing results.

Witness Stratton's conversation with the drunken bookbinder whom we know as John B.Gough, the apostle of temperance.

Witness Moffat's words that changed David Livingstone, the weaver, into David Livingstone, the savior of Africa.
Witness Garibaldi's words fashioning the Italian mob into the conquering army.

Witness Garrison and Beecher and Phillips and John Bright.