To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.