If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
It is no sin to look at a nice girl.
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.