“The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls
“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
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand
“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
“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old
“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts