Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and to which, at the very moment that we refuse our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse the homage of what ourselves do feel and acknowledge to be the best, the highest principles of our nature.

Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished--their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal? Live for something.

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.