God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

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

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

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

If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?