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.

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.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

Love is the essence of God.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.