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.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.