Error is always more busy than truth.

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

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.

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

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.