It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful doubt.

History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

I don't really regret much. I know there are things that I've done that have been wrong, and wish I could do over again, but I feel it's all made me who I am today, and I'm very thankful for that.