Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.