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.
We must have the courage to be happy.
Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
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.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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.
A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped for everything cannot be equally considered...
Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works an intelligence.
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.