God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

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.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

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

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.