Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.