Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

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.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

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