Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

As with most dreams of men, the ideal becomes just that––an ideal––and the pure rationale of existence is thrust upon the best of the dreamers.

If God exists at all, it exists in the pants of a man and woman, not otherwise

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

History works itself out in the living.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.