Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible with talent is genius.

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority