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.

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.