True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

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.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

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