A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.