in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.