Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.