I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.