Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

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

Impatience never commanded success.

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.

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

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.