Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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.

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

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

Error is always more busy than truth.