Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.