The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.