Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.