The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.