It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

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

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

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

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.