The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Long only for what you have.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!