There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he wants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

God reveals himself unfailingly to the thoughtful seeker.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.