Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother’s love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Do not judge from mere appearances...
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.
No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.
God is the explanation of all things.
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man’s moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.
In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.
The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.