It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

By and by never comes.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.