The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.