There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.