It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

The unfinished is nothing.

We must have the courage to be happy

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be –...

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

We only understand that which already is within us.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your...

So as long as a person is capable of self-renewal, they are a living being.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall...

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

A belief is not true because it is useful

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

True humility is contentment.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

Order is a great person’s need and their true well being.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to...

Tell me what you think you are and I will tell you what you are not

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them

We only understand that which already within us.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real...

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be...

Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does...

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Order is power.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

The great artist is the simplifier.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence....