It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.