One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.