When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

The more you say, the less people remember.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.

The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.