The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.