One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.