Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

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.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.