Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.