The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.

There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.