Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

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

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

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.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.