Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. The vapor climbs the sunbeam, and comes back in blessings upon the exhausted herb. The exhalation of the plant is wafted to the ocean. And so goes on the beautiful commerce of nature. And all because of dissimilarity--because no one thing is sufficient in itself, but calls for the assistance of something else, and repays by a contribution in turn.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

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

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.