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.

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

Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.