The law of heaven is love.
Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Hatred is self-punishment.
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.
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.