Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.