“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.”
“Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.”
“Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.”
“Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.”
“An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Order is power.”
“To marry unequally is to suffer equally.”
“The best path through life is the highway.”
“To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.”
“Common sense is calculation applied to life.”
“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”
“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”
“The only substance properly so called is the soul.”
“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
“To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.”
“Order is a great person's need and their true well being.”
“The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.”
“There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.”
“Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.”
“We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.”
“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.”
“Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.”
“Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.”
“Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.”
“Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.”