Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.