Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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.
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Order is power.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
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.
Man becomes man only by the intelligence but he is man only by the heart.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
The best path through life is the highway.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.