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.

True humility is contentment.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.