No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

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

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.