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.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!