Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

God made only water, but man made wine.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.