Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

There are no rules for felicity.

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

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.