Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.