The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.