The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.