Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

It is not always wise to appear singular.

Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

My childhood was appalling.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

The world is a penal institution.