A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.