If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.