The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.