It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.