Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

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.

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

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

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