Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!