Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.