I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.