When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

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

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.