The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.