So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.