Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

To Be is to live with God.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.