Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.