Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.