It needs as much generosity to take as to give.
Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.
The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.
We are not men, but promises of men.
Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.
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.