It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

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

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.

What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.