Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.