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

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

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.