The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.