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

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

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

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.