Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him