It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

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

Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.