One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.