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

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary – they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they...

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a...

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of the finite creatures.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat: that is progress.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

The thirst for truth is not a French passion

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

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

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

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.