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.

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

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

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.