Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.
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.
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
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.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.
True humility is contentment.
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...
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Time wasted is a theft from God.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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.
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.
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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 cha...
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.