Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations