Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?

Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.

How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

We've learned from experience that the truth will out.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.