The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.” 

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” 

“Psychology is the science of mental life” 

“None of us are ever who we were yesterday.” 

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

"Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around."

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.

Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

There is no such thing as failure, only results.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.

“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving

Although she be but little, she is fierce

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are

One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.

"It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.” 

“The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.” 

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely… but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.