The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did.

There is no history of how bad became better.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

I have great faith in a seed.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.