Every child walks into existence through the golden gate of love.  —­Beecher.

Of all sights which can soften and humanize the heart of man, there is none that ought so surely to reach it as that of innocent children enjoying the happiness which is their proper and natural portion.—­Southey.

Ah! what would the world be to us,
If the children were no more? 
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before. 
—­Longfellow.

Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood.  When He said, “Of such is the kingdom of heaven,” it was a revelation.—­Edward Eggleston.

Where children are there is the golden age.—­Novalis.

Christ.—­The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer, a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed.—­Decker.

All the glory and beauty of Christ are manifested within, and there He delights to dwell; His visits there are frequent, His condescension amazing, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and the peace that He brings passeth all understanding.—­Thomas A kempis.

From first to last Jesus is the same; always the same, majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.—­Napoleon I.

He, the Holiest among the mighty, and the Mightiest among the holy, has lifted with His pierced hands empires off their hinges, has turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages.—­Richter.

In His death He is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins; in the resurrection, a conqueror; in the ascension, a king; in the intercession, a high priest.—­Luther.

Jesus Christ was more than man.—­Napoleon I.

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page.  But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.—­Channing.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend?  Upon force.  Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him.—­Napoleon I.

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.—­Rousseau.

Those who have minutely studied the character of the Saviour will find it difficult to determine whether there is most to admire or to imitate in it—­there is so much of both.

Christianity.—­A Christian is God Almighty’s gentleman.—­Hare.

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to every house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.—­Macaulay.