Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.