Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
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 gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The best path through life is the highway.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
True humility is contentment.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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