Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

Love is the river of life in this world.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.