He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

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.

Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

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