To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.