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

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

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.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.