Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.