Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.