True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.