Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.