Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

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