How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.