“Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good; Love alone lightens every burden, and makes the rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bit...”

“It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer co...”

“If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.”

“Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.”

“The learned are well pleased to seem so to others and to be accounted wise, but much that is to be found in learning little profiteth the soul. He that is intent upon things other than those...”