No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.