When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.

Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.