Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.