To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

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.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

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

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.