Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.