The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.

High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

We should count time by heart-throbs.