Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.