Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

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.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.

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.