God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.