Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.