It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

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.

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 day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.