The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!