Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

You cannot see the mountain near.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.