Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?