We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.

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

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.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

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.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.