The girl is poised against a changing world, and yet represents a sense of permanence in a world that is mutable. She has some simple secrets and her life is just a source of missed times.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I think technology really increase human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. 

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.