Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.