Experience is retrospect knowledge.
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.
Self-respect is the best of all.
Rage is mental imbecility.
If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?
It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.