“Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.”

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

Pity melts the mind to love.

They think too little who talk too much.

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.

At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.

O freedom, first delight of human kind!

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

The winds are out of breath.

Seasons change and that’s okay, there will always be light, hope and grace.

We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

I hope you find grace in the spaces in between your racing thoughts and melancholy – be kind to your beautiful mind.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

When to give grace? I’d rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.

Ask for the grace you gift others ( you’re allowed to need what you give.) – you’re not needy.