What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.
He who gives love, receives love.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!