Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.