In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.