God is the explanation of all things.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.

Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.