The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.