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

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

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

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.

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

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.