The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

The best path through life is the highway.

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.