“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

“I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.”

“Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.”

“In the end,Do you always have to sacrifice something...To protect something else?”

“There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. ”

“Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.”

“Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.”