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

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Piety softens all that courage bears.

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

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