But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.