I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Reality in strong doses frightens.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!