Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.