God has prohibited despair.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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.
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
There is a transcendent power in example.
Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.