Immigration.—­If you should turn back from this land to Europe the foreign ministers of the Gospel, and the foreign attorneys, and the foreign merchants, and the foreign philanthropists, what a robbery of our pulpits, our court rooms, our storehouses, and our beneficent institutions, and what a putting back of every monetary, merciful, moral, and religious interest of the land!  This commingling here of all nationalities under the blessing of God will produce in seventy-five or one hundred years the most magnificent style of man and woman the world ever saw.  They will have the wit of one race, the eloquence of another race, the kindness of another, the generosity of another, the aesthetic taste of another, the high moral character of another, and when that man and woman step forth, their brain and nerve and muscle an intertwining of the fibres of all nationalities, nothing but the new electric photographic apparatus, that can see clear through body and mind and soul, can take of them an adequate picture.  —­T.  Dewitt Talmage.

Immortality.—­Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.  —­Channing.

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.—­Lytton.

     It must be so—­Plato, thou reasonest well—­
     Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
     This longing after immortality? 
     Or whence this secret dread and inward horror
     Of falling into naught?  Why shrinks the soul
     Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 
     ’Tis the Divinity that stirs within us;
     ’Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
     And intimates eternity to man. 
     The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
     Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
     But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
     Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
     The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. 
                       —­Addison.

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.—­Southey.

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies which invite me.—­Victor Hugo.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.—­Socrates.

Immortality o’ersweeps all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peals, like the eternal thunder of the deep, into my ears this truth:  Thou livest forever!—­Byron.

Independence.—­It is not the greatness of a man’s means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.—­Cobbett.