The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.