Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.