Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

Alas! how easily things go wrong!

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.