True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.