There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

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

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

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

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.

Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this.