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

Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.

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

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

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.