Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.