What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.