Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.
Flowers are like visible messages from God.
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.
The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.
Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
To change, it takes a decision based on faith, faith takes forgetting everything you thought you knew.
Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.
Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.