What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition, or interest. Thanks are due not to me, but Thee, from whom all I possess is derived. And what are the paltry gifts for which my neighbor forgets to thank me, compared with the immense blessings for which I have so often forgotten to be grateful to Thee!

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.