It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

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 shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

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

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