Pity enlarges the heart.

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.

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.

You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.

To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.