Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

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