Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

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.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.