Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

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

That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

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

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.