In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.