Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.