There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
Politeness smooths wrinkles.
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.