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

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

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

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

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

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

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