A life is black, whiten it as you will.

Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.

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

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.