God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

Man is emphatically self-made.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

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

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.