Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.