To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.
Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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.
Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.