Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

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

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.