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.

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

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

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

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

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