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

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

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

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

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

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.