The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.