Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

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

When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.