Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

Integrity expects integrity.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired