Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily