When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

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

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Piety softens all that courage bears.

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.