The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Impatience never commanded success.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.