There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.