“When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something”

“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm”

“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization”

“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic”

“It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true”

“The only fault's with time; all men become good creatures: but so slow!”