The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.