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

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.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

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

God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.