A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.