Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.