Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

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.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

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.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.