Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.