Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.
Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.
True charity is liable to excesses and transports.
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.
Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.