I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

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

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

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.