“Must we always be warned, and can we only fall on our knees when some one is there to tell us that God is passing by? If you have loved profoundly you have needed no one to tell you that your soul was a thing as great in itself as the world; that the stars, the flowers, the waves of night and sea were not solitary; that it was on the threshold of appearances that everything began, but nothing ended, and that the very lips you kissed belonged to a creature who was loftier, much purer, and much more beautiful than the one whom your arms enfolded.”

“It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.”

“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.”

“It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.”

“Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.”

“We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.”

“Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.”

“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”

“Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?”

“To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.”

“You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.”