Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

What I value most next to eternity is time.

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.

The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.