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

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

I look through the grave into heaven.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.