Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God….

Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, ….

The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injur….

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorit….

Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all ….

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction..

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them..

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius..

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies..

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel..

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind..

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier..

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I s….

A belief is not true simply because it is useful..

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….

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things..

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching..

It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But ….

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves..

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into ge….