Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.