Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

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

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

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

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.