The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.