I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.