Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.