Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Remorse weeps tears of blood.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.