No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.

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.

The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.