Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Trust can be broken in just a few seconds, but it will only heal after years

…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.

...we are our flaws, but they don't have to define us as either good or evil.

Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.

I always think something good is about to happen.

For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.