The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

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