With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!