Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper that is wrought into them by that life which they are taught and accustomed to lead.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!