Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

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.

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.