He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

I don’t have home without him”, Carrie said when doctor asked her to go home.“I won’t give up on him. Do you hear me, Doctor? Don’t you give up on him!

Moments never wait for anyone, slowly the new moment pushes the old moment back and then it never comes back. That's what makes them precious.

We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.

Ultimately I think the difference between reading the Bible and studying it is making the connections between who Jesus is and what he's done.

Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost.

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.