There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.