How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

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.

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

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.