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

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

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.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

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

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect