“Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth.”

“Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal souls, the laurel of confessors and the palm of martyrs.”

“Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth.”