No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve; it is because all degrees of love are degrees of happiness, that strengthen and support the Divine life of the soul, and are as necessary to its health and happiness, as proper food is necessary to the health and happiness of the body.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.

You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.