Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

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

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

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

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.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.