The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!