Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.

Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death.