You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.