The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.