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.

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

Life alone can rekindle life.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

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.