Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support.

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.