We live our little life; but Heaven is above us and all around and close to us; and Eternity is before us and behind us; and suns and stars are silent witnesses and watchers over us. We are enfolded by Infinity.

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.