We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.