Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.