Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.