Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.