We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

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.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.