A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.

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.