Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

I am made of beauty. I notice beauty all around me every day. I am beautifully blessed!

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.

In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.

I definitely want kids and I want four kids, for sure. But I need to find a husband first!

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.