God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

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