Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.