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

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

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.