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

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

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

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

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.