Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.