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

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

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.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.