Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

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

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.