He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.