Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

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.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.