Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.