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

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.

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.

An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.

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 greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.