Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.
Who understands much forgives much.
To pray together in whatever tongue or ritual is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow from them.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.