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

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

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

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.