The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.