The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.