To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold -- but not our brother-men -- not even the best and kindest amongst them.

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.