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

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.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

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

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.

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