It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

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.

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.