Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Justice is like the kingdom of God – it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness .
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.