Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.

Don't know about my knives, but my gun's made of pain.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

I just think the more were observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

All polishing is done by friction.

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.

I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then I think that models should be actors.