Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.