To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

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.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

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

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

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

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.