Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

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.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.