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.
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.
Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.