No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.