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

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

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.

Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.