Self-respect is the best of all.

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

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.