Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

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

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.