There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.