Piety softens all that courage bears.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

God has prohibited despair.

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

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!