Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

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.

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.

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.