Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.