The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.