You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.