What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!