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.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

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

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

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 only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.