Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.