There Is Never Any Peace For Those

Avoid All Refined Speculations; Confine Yourself To Simple Reflections, And Recur To Them Frequently. Those Who Pass Too Rapidly From One Truth To Another Feed Their Curiosity And Restlessness; They Even Distract Their Intellect With Too Great A Multiplicity Of Views. Give Every Truth Time To Send Down Deep Root Into The Heart.

There Is No Real Elevation Of Mind In A Contempt Of Little Things; It Is, On The Contrary, From Too Narrow Views That We Consider Those Things Of Little Importance Which Have In Fact Such Extensive Consequences.

Of All The Duties Enjoined By Christianity None Is More Essential And Yet More Neglected Than Prayer.

I Am Not In The Least Surprised That Your Impression Of Death Becomes More Lively, In Proportion As Age And Infirmity Bring It Nearer. God Makes Use Of This Rough Trial To Undeceive Us In Respect To Our Courage, To Make Us Feel Our Weakness, And To Keep Us In All Humility In His Hands.

God's Treasury Where He Keeps His Children's Gifts Will Be Like Many A Mother's Store Of Relics Of Her Children, Full Of Things Of No Value To Others, But Precious In His Eyes For The Love's Sake That Was In Them.