Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vendor of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh; and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom of fifteen to a lady of fifty.