God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

He that loves not his wife and children, feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.

Love is friendship set on fire.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

It is usually not so much the greatness of our trouble as the littleness of our spirit which makes us complain.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.