Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life is granted to us in election, promised in our vocation, sealed in our justification, possessed in our glorification. Conclude then, faithfully to thy own soul. I believe, therefore I am justified; I am justified, therefore I am sanctified; I am sanctified, therefore I am called; I am called, therefore I am elected; I am elected, therefore I shall be saved. Oh! settled comfort of joy, which ten thousand devils shall never make void.

A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.

Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.