“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.”
“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”
“Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.”
“Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.”
“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
“Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.”
“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
“Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.”
“Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.”
“A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.”
“The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.”
“Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.”
“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.”
“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”
“The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.”