There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.