To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.