Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

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

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

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.