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

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Everything that is exquisite hides itself.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!