All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

Hatred is self-punishment.