Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.