There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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

The eye is inlet to the soul.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.