Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.
Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.