To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.