There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.