"The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an …"

"Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction."

"In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close—knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of u…"

"I have fixed my eyes on the spaces that heaven’s light illuminates, that I may not lay too heavy a strain on the indu…"

"We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by seve…"

"We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affectio…"

"Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego."

"Every human creature is sensible of the propensities to some infirmity of temper which it should be his care to corre…"

"In principle there is a difference between violence which is incidental and violence which is infected for the indulg…"

"I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the…"