Our strength grows out of our weakness.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

Life is a series of surprises.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.