He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.