Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.