The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

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.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.