The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.