Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.