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

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

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

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.