The best path through life is the highway.

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

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.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.