I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and insures success.