It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
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.