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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Hatred is self-punishment.

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

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

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

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

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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

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

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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

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

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character as an ink drop soileth the pure white page.

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

True repentance also involves reform.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

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

Hatred is self punishment.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

God's glowing covenant.

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.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

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

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

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.