A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.