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

God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

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.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.