Experience is retrospect knowledge.
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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.