any evidence whatever; even that of a messenger sent express from the
other world.--_Atterbury._

But what is meant, after all, by _uneducated_, in a time when books have
come into the world--come to be household furniture in every habitation
of the civilized world? In the poorest cottage are books--is one book,
wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light
and nourishment and an interpreting response to whatever is deepest in
him.--_Carlyle._

A stream where alike the elephant may swim and the lamb may
wade.--_Gregory the Great._

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming
more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred
writings.--_Herschel._

I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a book which, to say
nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius
and taste than any other volume in existence.--_Landor._

~Bigotry.~--A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive
even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices,
damns all mankind by the word of his power.--_Boileau._

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which
Lenhenhoeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they
freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the
sufferer.--_Colton._

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes
there is no virtue but on his own side.--_Addison._

The worst of mad men is a saint run mad.--_Pope._

~Biography.~--As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a
beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we
do not wish them to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark
them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other
destroy the likeness of the picture.--_Plutarch._

Biographies of great, but especially of good men, are most instructive
and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best
are almost equivalent to gospels--teaching high living, high thinking,
and energetic action for their own and the world's good.--_Samuel
Smiles._

It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his
life with any genuine exactness and discrimination; and few people, who
have lived with a man, know what to remark about him.--_Johnson._

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives
can onl