I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

Hillary Clinton is totally for open borders - there goes your country - which would mean the destruction of America.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.