Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.