All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.