It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

You have your face bare; I am all face.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.