No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

There is never any peace for those who resist God.

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.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.