I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

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.

God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

Pity enlarges the heart.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.