The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.