Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.

To beautify life is to give it an object.

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, n…

There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffe…

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.