What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.