For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.