Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in…

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No human creature can give orders to love.

No human creature can give orders to love.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort...

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort...

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes...

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes...

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to...

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to...

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment;...

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment;...

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason

Vanity is the quicksand of reason

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the...

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the...

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.