But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.