All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Why can't the ex-Chemist have a second chance? I get that we're kids and he's an adult, but you don't learn everything before you grow up. You learn until grass grows on your grave.

A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

All Italians are plunderers.

He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.