All cruelty springs from weakness.
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.