Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.