The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.