It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

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

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

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

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.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.