The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

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!

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.