We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.