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

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

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.

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

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it