I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning