…he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

I value my own
independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that
of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing
me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might
be the wisest of men, or the most powerful--I should equally rebel and
resent his interference...

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God’s method of self-denial for Satan’s plan of self–improvement.

O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope.