We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

Those who are wholly God's are always happy.