Quotes from Frederick W. Faber

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Many a friendship-long loyal and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.