Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

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.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.