Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

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.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.