The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?