Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.