“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”

“In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.”

“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”

“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence”

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts”

“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us”