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.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

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

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

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

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.