The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.