To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.