Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Order is power.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
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.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.