If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

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

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

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