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

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

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.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.