O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.