Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.