Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.