To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.