Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
