Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.- Hosea Ballou
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
Hatred is self-punishment.
