To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Never cut what you can untie.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Children need models rather than critics.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Ask the young. They know everything.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Space is the stature of God.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Justice is the truth in action.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
