True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

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.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

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

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.