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.

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

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

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

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

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.