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

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.