Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

The heart has always the pardoning power.