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

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

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

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.

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.

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