When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

Mirth is God's medicine.

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.