You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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.
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.