Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

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.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.