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.

Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

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

The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.