“Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.”

“Mankind by the perverse depravity of their nature esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which i...”

“Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiesc...”

“Even if no command to pray had existed our very weakness would have suggested it.”

“Time spent in prayer is never wasted.”

“I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray pray thyself in me.”

“Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.”

“But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.”

“Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”