Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

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

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.