If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

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

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

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

It is work which gives flavor to life.