They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.