Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

World, death, devil, hell, away and leave me in peace! You have no hold on me. If you will not let me live, then I will die. But you won't succeed in that. Chop my head off, and it won't harm me. I have a God who will give me a new one.

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.