Do not measure God's mind by your own.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.