The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.