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 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.

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

If you do not direct your path, the world will. Don't ever let anyone make you go where you do not want to be.

It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

Don't make all of your sadness to be a miserable tragedy, Just forget it with your conscious heart and clear mind.

You are God’s holy people.

I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again

When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.

Everything that could be said already has; I'm just trying to say it differently.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

Sandals are made out of rubber, and when lit on fire burn black.

There's always another record, then there's always another person to catch up with or to pass.