A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.