There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.