He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

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.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

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