It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

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.

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.