A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

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.

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

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.

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

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.