Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.
Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.