Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

Speak, move, act in peace.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.