It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him