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

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

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

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.