Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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.
We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
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.