We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.