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.

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

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.