We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!