We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.