The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

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.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

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