We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

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

Time hath a taming hand.

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

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

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.