The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

Pity enlarges the heart.

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

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.