Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

True repentance always involves reform.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.