Desires

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

There are only two tragedies in life. one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it

Men willingly believe what they wish

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen

I can resist everything except temptation

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike

When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy