To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.