Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

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.

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.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

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