Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.