As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.