Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.

Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.

Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.

We are not men, but promises of men.