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

When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

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.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.