It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know..

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetne….

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it..

The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand sour….

If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody..

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all..

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger..

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers ….

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul..

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of o….

The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible..

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious..

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give..

We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is….

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration..

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our sma….

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile..

it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fil….

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains..

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And thoug….

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request..