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.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.