The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.