In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.

To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

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.

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!