Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.