Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.