If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

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

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.

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.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

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