Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.