God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

Politeness is practical Christianity.