There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Time hath a taming hand.