Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
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.
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.