"When illusions are over, when the distractions of sense, the vagaries of fancy, and the tumults of passion have disso…"

"The Psalms are an everlasting manual to the soul; the book of its immortal wishes, its troubles, its aspirations, and…"

"Enough of good there is in the lowest estate to sweeten life; enough of evil in the highest to check presumption; eno…"

"The materials of the first temple were made ready in solitude. Those of the last also must be shaped in retirement; i…"

"The path which leads to the mount bf ascension does not lie among flowers; and he who travels it must climb the cold …"

"Bearing bravely the evils that beset us, doing cheerfully the duties that are near, trusting in God, guided by Christ…"

"We are not to wait to be in preparing to be. We are not to wait to do in preparing to do, but to find in being and do…"

"It awes by the majesty of its truths, it agitates by the force of its compunctions, it penetrates the heart by the te…"

"The spirit of contempt is the true spirit of Antichrist; for no other is more directly opposed to Christ."

"We cannot rekindle the morning beams of childhood; we cannot recall the noontide glory of youth; we cannot bring back…"