All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. |
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. |
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. |
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. |
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak. |
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. |
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. |