Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.

when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?

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.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

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

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.