Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Love is not a volunteer thing.
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.