True love is the parent of humility.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

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

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.