It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.