Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

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

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.