It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.