Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.