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

When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves