The Old Echoes Are Long In Dying.

A Man's Longest Purposes Will Be His Best Purposes. It Is True, Life Is Short And Uncertain; But It Is Better To Live On The Short Arc Of A Large Circle Than To Describe The Whole Circumference Of A Small Circle.

All True Manliness Grows Around A Core Of Divineness.

It Is All A Mistake That We Cannot Be Good And Manly Without Being Scrupulously And Studiously Good. There Is Too Much Mechanism About Our Virtue.

Faith Is The Very Heroism And Enterprise Of Intellect. Faith Is Not A Passivity, But A Faculty. Faith Is Power, The Material Of Effect. Faith Is A Kind Of Winged Intellect. The Great Work Men Of History Have Been Men Who Believed Like Giants.

Christ Took Hold Of The Work Of The World's Saving In A Larger Way Than It Is Possible For Us To Do, And Therefore The Burden Of His Undertaking Came Upon Him In A Heavier, Wider, And More Crushing Way Than It Can Come Upon Us; And Therefore, While It Overwhelmed Him In Sorrow, Our Smaller Mission And Lighter Task Can With Entire Propriety Leave Us Buoyant And Gladsome.