It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

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.

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.

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

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.