However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.