Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.