The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

The world itself makes us sick of the world.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.