The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.