Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.

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