God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.