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.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.