For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.