With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.

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

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

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.

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