No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.