It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.