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

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

God is the explanation of all things.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.