A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

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

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.