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

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

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

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.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.

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