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

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.