Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty

There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed

Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes