It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

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

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

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.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

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