Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

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

There is an army of waiters in this world.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.