When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
Pride is never so loud as when in chains.
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.