Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Success is never so interesting as struggle