Experience is retrospect knowledge.

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.

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.

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

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