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

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

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

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

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.