Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

In books, or work, or healthful play.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.