How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.