It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

Bright and illustrious illusions!

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.