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

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.

Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.

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

it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.

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.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.