Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.