If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

The greatest pleasure in life is love.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.