After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.