Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.