As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end