I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

The heart has always the pardoning power.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.

Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

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

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