When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

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.