“Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”

“yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just”

“Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.”

“but, had I a place to new fashion, I should not put myself into the hands of an improver. I would rather have an inferior degree of beauty, of my own choice, and acquired progressively. I would rather abide by my own blunders than by his.”

“This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!”

“I would dazzle you with brilliance, if I only had the knack. Cause I like you just the way you are.”