Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.