I've never met a leopard print I didn't like.
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.
Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.
Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without preservatives" into Italian. They warned me, however, as they taught me how to say it, that the Italian word for "preservatives" is the same as the word for "condom. " So that I should be careful how I look when I say it.
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.