He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Man is the dwarf of himself.