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

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.