The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.