Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

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