The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them – the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Now comes the mystery.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.