The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.