This Perfection Is The Restoration Of Man

If You Be Faithful, You Will Have That Honor That Comes From God: His Spirit Will Say In Your Hearts, Well Done, Good And Faithful Servants.

It Is To Be Regretted That Few Persons Who Have Arrived At Any Degree Of Eminence Or Fame, Have Written Memorials Of Themselves, At Least Such As Have Embraced Their Private As Well As Their Public Life.

Prayer Is Not Designed To Inform God, But To Give Man A Sight Of His Misery; To Humble Man's Heart, To Excite His Desire, To Inflame His Faith, To Animate His Hope, To Raise His Soul From Earth To Heaven.

Man May Be Considered As Having A Twofold Origin - Natural, Which Is Common And The Same To All - Patronymic, Which Belongs To The Various Families Of Which The Whole Human Race Is Composed.

We Communicate Happiness To Others Not Often By Great Acts Of Devotion And Self-sacrifice, But By The Absence Of Fault-finding And Censure, By Being Ready To Sympathize With Their Notions And Feelings, Instead Of Forcing Them To Sympathize With Ours.