I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

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.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.