An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds for love is measured by fullness not by reception.

Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears.

He that hath ears to hear let him hear.

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

Little pitchers have wide ears.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

The head is always the dupe of the heart.

Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and after these the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Conscience as I understand it is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right regardless of personal ends and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and...

Live virtuously and you cannot die too soon or live too long.

From birth to age eighteen a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on she needs g...

No one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes the thwarting of the instinct to love i...

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of ma...