Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

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.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE