[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Love is the piety of the affections.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

Nature is God's Old Testament.