If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Repentance is a gift of God's grace.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.