The great hope of society is in individual character

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the perfection and happiness of a better world,-it is possible still to cling to the conviction of God's merciful purpose towards His creatures, of His parental goodness even in suffering, still to feel that the path of duty, though trodden with a heavy heart, leads to peace.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.