The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.