Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?