Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

True humility is contentment.

Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.