And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.