Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

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.

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

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!