Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.