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.

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

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