Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

Hope is only the love of life.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

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

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.