There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!