I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.