The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.
true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.