Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

The heart has always the pardoning power.

When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.