we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

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.

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

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

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

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