A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.