Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

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.