Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

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

Love is faith and one faith leads to another.