A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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.

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.