We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

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

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.