If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.