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.

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.

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

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

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

Speak, move, act in peace.

God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.