Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.

God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

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.

God has prohibited despair.