We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.

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

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

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

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.