However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

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.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

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