There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.