What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

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.

Football teams that lost their matches can have many other chances to play in successive seasons

I wanted you mine. I wanted me yours.

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.