"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine."

"Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue."

"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."

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

"No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work."

"Everything in the world exists to end up in a book."

"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."

"Hatred is self-punishment."

"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."

"Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic."

"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation."

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

"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."

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

"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable."

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

"Error is always more busy than truth."

"Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden."

"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."

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

"Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way."

"Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction."