A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

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.