It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.