Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.