"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward."

"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"They never fail who die in a great cause."

"To some extent I liken slavery to death."