Be true to your own highest convictions.

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.