To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.