Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

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.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.