By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

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.

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

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.