Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?

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

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!