If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

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

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

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.