The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.