White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.
I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.
Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.