Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.