The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.