The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

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

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

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

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.