To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

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

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.