But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.