Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.