Feeling loves a subdued light.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

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

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

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.