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.
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.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Order is power.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.