What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.
If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.
Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.