I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

A great many men — some comparatively small men now — if put in the right position, would be Martin Luther|Luthers and Christopher Columbus|Columbuses.

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.