How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.