How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.