Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

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

Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.