Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

Patience is nobler motion than any deed.

Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.