Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

Make youself necessary to someone.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.