There is never any peace for those who resist God.

God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.

You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

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.