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.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.