“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.

To sing is to pray twice.

He that is jealous is not in love.

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

A Black beauty has to protect her skin at all cost.

Sometimes waiting and seeing things unfold has its own beauty.

Look around. Look at what we have. Beauty is everywhere, you only have to look to see it.

Trust the patience. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of life.⁠

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can’t help it. I’m just a cliché of myself.

It’s the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don’t see it, All i see is a blur.

Love is the beauty of the soul.