It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.