Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

The best path through life is the highway.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

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