What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.