Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

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

The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.