It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.