I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'