At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Every life is a profession of faith.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

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

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.