These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

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.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.