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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
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.
The best path through life is the highway.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
True humility is contentment.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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.
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 know if you are happy.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
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.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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 power.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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 piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
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.
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
