A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward. |
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. |
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. |
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. |
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams. |
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. |
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. |
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. |
The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry; the coat that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor. |
Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. |
Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. |
Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle. |
[The pope focused on scriptural readings that said God's love was seen in the] marvels of creation. ... fooled by the atheism that they carry inside of them, imagine a universe free of direction and order, as if at the mercy of chance. |