As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

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.