He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.