The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

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.

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.

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.